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The actual cost and time of the construction projects are different from the planned. Cost and time overruns are critical issues. Therefore, these overruns highlight the importance of the monitor and control phase for the project's success, So the project needs to monitor and control project elements as time, cost, and scope, in addition to risks, where construction projects face more risks. Earned value management (EVM) is a technique for evaluating project performance, used for early tracking to indicate that the project on planned time and estimated cost or not. Risk is considered part of the EVM process. Earned Value Management and risk management (RM) are two popular techniques used to monitor and control project performance. Therefore, the main objective of this paper to improve the performance of construction projects by integrating risk into Earned Value Management. Achieving this aim shall help the project managers to take corrective actions. In order to achieve the objective of this paper, present a literature review, where several chosen literature sources published during the last decade were analyzed and divided into five main categories: EVM, RM, Integration between EVM and Risk, Risk Contingency Reserve (CR), Schedule Reserve (SR), Software. The findings of this paper identified the value-added from applying integration and the guidelines for this process application. Therefore, it recommends integrating Earned Value Management into Risk from a cost and time perspective with the use of accurate software to improve construction project performance.

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Building maintenance is considered to be the cornerstone of modern management systems for newly established projects. One of the reasons is that it plays an important role in reducing maintenance cost and increasing the lifetime of project components. However the lack of sufficient studies, lack of awareness and lack of coordination with different disciplines on a project delivery process affect maintenance managers and staff on having accurate and specific information needed for a project components, which leads to waste of resources, time and indirect cost of a project, While technological development gives one of the most popular systems which is known as building information modeling (BIM) as a new tool to support maintenance management. Thus, the main objective of this paper is to identify the impact of integrating building information modeling with maintenance management, whether this integration would be useful for stakeholders or would it help in reducing project budget and save time or not. The research methodology involved a literature review study on this topic. Where it is found that maintenance managers can reach the higher quality and better performance for a project by using BIM tools, data required and process. Furthermore, such integration has proved to be a great value regarding the efficiency of the maintenance management process, eliminating waste of time, rework and sequentially cost reduction.

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